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Title :: 3B - Bisi Bele Bhaat
Author :: rangss
Category :: Bread & Rice
Ingredients ::
- Rice (any variety)- a medium tumbler-full
- Tur Dal (a cup)
- Potatoes (two medium)
- Onion (one medium)
- Shelled Peas (a handful)
- French Beans (chopped -handful)
- Carrot chopped (handful)
- Tomato (chopped) optional
- A ball of Tamarind - (size of a ping pong ball)
- Curry leaves
- Mustard
- Salt
- For the masala:
- Urad (Black Gram )Dal (spoonful)
- Channa (chickpea) Dal (spoonful)
- Fenugreek (methi) seeds: a few
- Dhania (coriander seeds) spoonful
- Red dried chillies : 3
- Cloves: 3
- Cardamom seeds: (from a couple of pods)
- Cinnamon: a small piece
- Cumin: Spoonful (optional)
- Oil (as per one's requirement)
Tamarind, veggies, dal and rice..as I made it (ingredients are as per my measure)
Soak the tamarind in water for sometime.
Roast the ingredients of the masala together with a little oil in a wok. Do not over heat. Just brown them. Let it cool and then grind the mix into a fine powder.
Cook rice in a pressure cooker. Also cook tur dal with some water separately.
Squeeze the pulp out of the tamarind into the water it was soaked in, to make a thick puree (not too thick).
Boil all the chopped veggies except onions and tomatoes until 3/4th done.
Heat oil in the wok and splatter the mustard in it. Add curry leaves,chopped onions and tomatoes and cook for a while.
Add the tamarind puree to the wok. Add a little water if the consistency is too thick. The idea is to leave enough water to cook all that goes in apart from the tamarind.
Cook until the rawness of the tamarind is gone. Add the par-boiled veggies and mix. Add the powdered spice-mix, salt and the cooked dal. Mix well, cover and cook on medium flame and lower the flame after 5 minutes. Cook for another 5 minutes and remove.
Take the rice out and spread it on a broad plate to dry. Use a fork to separate the grain.
Pour the tamarind sauce with veggies and dal over the rice evenly and mix well.
Serve hot with potato crisps.
Updated Thu, May 18 2006 6:13 pm
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Edited by rangss, 18 May 2006 - 06:13 PM.
